The Boss' politics had been largely non-committal until Reagan's 'Morning in America' pushed him to be more direct.
The Boss' politics had been largely non-committal until Reagan's 'Morning in America' pushed him to be more direct.
The day after Springsteen finished his Philly run in 1984, Reagan came to South Jersey. He echoed conservative columnist George F. Will, who had recently written, “the recitation of closed factories and other problems” in Springsteen’s songs “always seemed punctuated by a grand cheerful affirmation: ‘Born in the U.S.A.!’”“America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts,” Reagan said in the speech, after saying how happy he was to be in “the Blueberry Capital of the World.
“I don’t think was that everybody was going to make a billion dollars but that everybody was going to have an opportunity and a chance to live a life with some decency and some dignity.”Steven Hyden quotes Springsteen telling MTV’s Kurt Loder that “I might’ve voted for George McGovern in 1972.” But otherwise, he sat out presidential elections.
That evolution toward unequivocal protest music continued through “American Skin ,” the 2000 song about the NYPD killing of West African student Amadou Diallo. By that time,in 2004 in support of John Kerry against George W. Bush, and stumped extensively for Barack Obama in 2008, includingfrom Tom Petty telling John McCain to back off of “I Won’t Back Down” to Heart denying Sarah Palin’s use of “Barracuda.
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